Championship where everybody has his price

The moneymen will have their chequebooks open as so many participants at Euro 2008 are on the market

SPOT the owner will be played as often as spot the ball at Euro 2008, where the principals' fabulous earnings appear to come with a jobseeker's allowance.

Almost everybody - coaches and players - is up for auction, and Roman Abramovich is just one among many club proprietors casting covetous eyes over the talent on parade.

Chelsea, as the world and his wife knows, are in the market for a manager and the rumour mill is on overtime, suggesting with varying degrees of credibility that Portugal's Luiz Felipe Scolari, Russia's Guus Hiddink, Croatia's Slaven Bilic and even Harry Redknapp, of Portsmouth, is in line for the job.

Interestingly, the Russian media, who have more reason than most to believe in conspiracy theories, maintain that Hiddink is a shoo-in, on the basis that Abramovich, who subsidises his wages as national team manager, would now rather have him in charge of his more expensive